Derrick Grigg

Flash and Flex RIA Developer

Toronto, Canada Area

Current
  • Owner at Derrick Grigg Web Development Services
Past
  • Senior Solutions Architect at Innovasium
  • Lead CRM Developer at Centrinity
  • Lead DBA at Sprint Canada
Education
  • Roberts Wesleyan College
  • Wilfrid Laurier University
Connections
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Industry
Internet
Websites

Derrick Grigg’s Summary

Derrick Grigg is an independent contractor who specializes in Flash and Flex development. He has extensive experience developing enterprise level Rich Internet Applications (RIA's) using a wide variety of internet technologies.

Derrick offers a unique combination of expertise in both Flash/Flex development and server side/database development. He is very adept at understanding requirements and processes and developing workable solutions. From microsite work and component development to integrating with databases and 3rd party systems, he has worked across the board.

Derrick Grigg’s Specialties:

Skills:
- Advanced development in actionscript
- Extremely knowledgeable in the creation of Flash/Flex components
- Very experienced in architecting modular Flex applications
- Excellent understanding of Flash/Flex integration with server side technology and databases
- Experienced with MVC, design patterns and OOP

Technology:
- Flash, Flex, AIR
- Actionscript, Javascript,
- ASP, Coldfusion, Java, PHP
- BlazeDS, Flash Remoting, Web services, XML
- MS SQL, MySQL, Oracle


Derrick Grigg’s Experience

  • Owner

    Derrick Grigg Web Development Services

    (Internet industry)

    April 2000Present (9 years 4 months)

    Independnet web contractor specializing in RIA and Web 2.0 development using Flash, Flex, Flash Remoting and Coldfusion.

    Recent projects:
    www.sproutbuilder.com
    www.realliving.com
    www.fedexstories.com
    www.lymabean.com

    To check out additional work and capabilities, visit www.dgrigg.com.

  • Senior Solutions Architect

    Innovasium

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

    February 2003August 2006 (3 years 7 months)

    Senior Flash, Coldfusion and database developer. Responsible for product development, research and development and developer mentoring.

  • Lead CRM Developer

    Centrinity

    (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    February 2001August 2002 (1 year 7 months)

    Led the development and implementation of a company wide CRM (customer relationship management) solution. Maintained the corporate data warehouse and managed data reporting.

  • Lead DBA

    Sprint Canada

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

    January 2000February 2001 (1 year 2 months)

    Led the development and support of the enterprise division's CRM system. Developed systems to assist the marketing and sales departments in tracking and reporting key metrics.

  • Marketing Program Manager

    Oce Canada

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; oceny; Printing industry)

    December 1997January 2000 (2 years 2 months)

    Implemented and managed the corporate CRM system. Developed applications to assist the sales and marketing departments.


Derrick Grigg’s Education

  • Roberts Wesleyan College

    B.S. , Business , 19931996

  • Wilfrid Laurier University

    Honours Computing and Computer Electronics 19921993


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  •    Lance Link

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